About the Role
The Project Manager will play a pivotal role in the Change Delivery team, responsible for leading strategic and tactical change initiatives across Amwins Global Risks. This role will drive process improvements, system enhancements, and organizational change, aligning with the Amwins Change Delivery Framework to enable business transformation and support growth.
Responsibilities
- Oversee the entire lifecycle of one or more concurrent projects with comprehensive planning and delivery to budget and scope.
- Create and manage key project artefacts including delivery plans, RAID logs, Azure DevOps boards, resource profiles, and budget tracking.
- Lead and manage the project team, providing guidance, support, and performance oversight.
- Facilitate project delivery using appropriate methodologies (Agile, Product, Waterfall) and lead sprint planning and execution.
- Coordinate business analysis activities, working with stakeholders to gather and validate business and technical requirements.
- Assist teams in documenting processes and requirements to ensure technical implementations align with business needs.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for stakeholders, ensuring clear communication regarding project progress, milestones, and issues.
- Establish and run effective project governance structures, including steering committees and working groups.
- Ensure justifications for key decisions are surfaced and approved.
- Deliver high-quality reporting and manage risks, actions, issues, and decisions (RAID) effectively.
- Manage changes to project scope, requirements, and timelines through a controlled change process.
- Assess impact and secure appropriate sign-off before implementation.
- Support the transition of delivered solutions into business-as-usual operations, including operational readiness and handover.
- Track adoption and benefits realisation post go-live.
- Use available AI tools (e.g. Claude, Copilot) to streamline day-to-day project activities.
Requirements
- Ability to motivate themselves and others to successfully complete tasks/work packages.
- Project management and planning experience, with strong co-ordination skills.
- Strong skills in relationship/stakeholder management with concise, influential communication.
- Proactive approach to identifying and resolving issues before they escalate.
- Good analytical skills with attention to detail and accuracy.
- Ability to think strategically while managing day-to-day delivery detail.
- Ability to facilitate Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives) and Waterfall planning.
- Ability to coordinate and validate business/technical requirements with stakeholders.
- Skilled in running project governance forums and producing decision-ready papers.
- Budget and resource tracking skills, with ability to report variances clearly.
- Comfortable using AI tools to automate routine tasks and improve productivity.
- Comfortable operating with ambiguity and bringing structure to undefined scope.
- Able to support decision-making on complex challenges, framing problems, options, and trade-offs.
- Willing to get hands-on to unblock delivery and drive issues to resolution.
- Experience of working in Lloyd’s and London Insurance Market, in Broking and/or Underwriting.
- Knowledge and experience of working with Insurance Broking/Underwriting systems.
- Project management experience or experience of change delivery.
- Experience in working in Waterfall and Agile software development environments.
- Experienced in use of project management tooling, in particular MS Project, Azure DevOps and MS Planner.
- Experience of working in both IT and non-IT projects (typically involving process improvement).
- Experience in effectively managing organisations and people in a change environment.
- Experience coordinating analysis activities (requirements gathering, process documentation).
- Experience establishing or operating within formal project governance structures (steering committees, RAID reporting).
- Experience engaging third-party vendors/suppliers as part of project delivery would be desirable.
- Experience using AI tools (e.g. Claude, Copilot) to support project delivery tasks would be desirable.
- Experience delivering complex technical implementations, such as system integrations, data migrations, or platform replacements.
Skills
- Project management
- Planning
- Co-ordination
- Relationship management
- Stakeholder management
- Communication
- Problem-solving
- Analytical skills
- Strategic thinking
- Agile facilitation
- Waterfall planning
- Requirements gathering
- Requirements validation
- Project governance
- Budget tracking
- Resource tracking
- AI tools
- Ambiguity management
- Decision-making support
- Issue resolution
- Lloyd’s and London Insurance Market experience
- Insurance Broking/Underwriting systems knowledge
- Change delivery
- Waterfall methodologies
- Agile methodologies
- MS Project
- Azure DevOps
- MS Planner
- IT projects
- Non-IT projects
- Process improvement
- Change management
- Analysis coordination
- Vendor/supplier engagement
- Complex technical implementations
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Project management experience
- Change delivery experience
- Experience in working in Waterfall and Agile software development environments
- Experienced in use of project management tooling
- Experience of working in both IT and non-IT projects
- Experience in effectively managing organisations and people in a change environment
- Experience coordinating analysis activities
- Experience establishing or operating within formal project governance structures
- Experience engaging third-party vendors/suppliers
- Experience using AI tools
- Experience delivering complex technical implementations
Education Level
- Project Management qualification (e.g. PRINCE2, PMI, MSP)
- Business Analysis qualification desirable
- Agile Methodology qualification desirable
- CII qualification desirable
About the Company
- Amwins Global Risks succeeds together by forging lasting relationships.
- With over 700 employees globally and a footprint in more than 150 countries, Amwins Global Risks is a top 10 contributor to Lloyd’s.
- The company encourages and supports professional and personal development, investing in employee learning.
- Amwins Global Risks believes in a flat organizational structure that prizes expertise and relationships equally.
- The company has built a workplace where talent, collaboration, and inclusivity are valued.
- Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion cultivates an open, welcoming workplace.
Equal Opportunity
- Commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion helps cultivate an open, welcoming workplace where everyone who works with us can be themselves.
